Thank God He reached out to me! 

Prior to this time, I was minding my own thing, but I was on my way to hell. I didn't think about God or had anything to do with Him. My only slight connection was accompanying my grandma to an orthodox Church back then in Nigeria, and I didn't understand a bit of what went on throughout the time we were there. I never saw my parents pray or gather us together to pray as a little boy. I didn't give any importance to anything God like most people do now. We only prayed at meal at my elementary school, and it was a song, perhaps to just get kids to do it. There was nothing personal for me in the exercise.

Life’s pilgrimage has now brought me to Canada, and I have seen a lot of people don't care about God or teach their kids about Him. We groom them to know about skiing, skating, biking, gaming, table etiquette, and all that stuff. I am told hockey is a god in Canada and that an average Canadian will rather go to a hockey game than go to church. We want our kids to be able to socialize but we ignore anything about God. Nothing wrong with training our kids to socialize but we must not ignore the first and main thing. None of these socialization skills will be more useful than a lifetime. Besides, there are new things coming out every now and then. How many things will you try to catch up with? We didn't have anything like a scooter in our days when I was a kid, but those things keep evolving. As an immigrant, I told my wife when I sensed that she was coming under pressure to get our kids to learn so many things all at the same time. How many things will they catch up with just because we moved to a new country? We can only go as far as possible. I am not giving in to that pressure. I must not know everything, but I must know the most important thing and that's God. I must know him for myself. I must pass the knowledge of God as a legacy.

In addressing this neglect of God in families and the society, I see that most parents don't know any better. Some of them were also not taught about God and so are unable to give what they don't have. This has become the norm what was an error for their parents. It has now become a transgenerational blunder, whereas our greatest legacy to them is to teach them about God - to know Him and to have a personal walk with Him. 

My life won't have a meaning unless I had met God. It is the best and singular decision of my life that has impacted on all other aspects of my life. It helps my social interactions more than anything my social studies classes taught me. It impacts me in my business to be a man of integrity more than the threats of any regulatory body or criminal law. It helped me to be loyal to friends. It guided me to be faithful to my wife even when she can't monitor me all the time. It is helping me to be a good dad to my kids, not as though I am perfect. 

If you think that's all God did in my life, that’s not all. Maybe you have said, “I am all that without your God. I don't need him to do all that”. There's yet one more – the most important thing that no other person or religion can give you, that is, eternal life. I told you I was minding my business, but I was on my way to hell. I was a pretty brilliant kid, at least based on my scores. I could have done well for myself financially in life without God just like most are doing now but I was a sinner and on my way to hell. I was only human and like the scripture had said, sin nature was in me, and I could not deal with it by myself. All men, without exception, had something that will send them to hell unless they accept God’s intervention in the person of His son, Jesus, by believing on him and what He did on the cross. It will be too late to want to see this play out on that day before you believe. 

Without God, I will be doomed to hell by the time I am done on this terrestrial side of things if I do not have God in my life and so will anyone without him. Disbelieving the word of God will not change the certainty of his word. You will only hurt yourself. There's much more beyond. My practice of law makes me know there's always consequences to things. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”. Hebrews 9:27. There’s something to learn about God for yourself and pass to you kids

I plead with everyone reading this piece to give God His space of priority in your life. He iss reaching out for you too saying “Seek first the kingdom of God….” Matthew 6:33. Would you? It's not a religion thing. It's the pathway to abundant and meaningful life here on earth and beyond.